South

South is a hallucinatory exploration of life under totalitarianism, centering on journalist B, who travels to the South of an unnamed desert country for a mission to report on strikes at an offshore oil rig. Confronted by a harsh landscape and shadowy forces, B grapples with his father's mysterious disappearance, the erosion of his marriage, and encounters with enigmatic figures. Through tightly woven prose, the novel delves into themes of imagination, reality, surveillance, and the struggle for agency in a world rife with paranoia and alienation.